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Keyword: Saturn rings
![Вид сбоку на кольца, Титан и Диону](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/01/06/0001255451/PIA14910_900c.preview.jpg)
5.01.2012
Orbiting in the plane of Saturn's rings, Saturnian moons have a perpetual ringside view of the gorgeous gas giant planet. Of course, while passing near the ring plane the Cassini spacecraft also shares their stunning perspective.
![Прометей и кольцо F](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/01/08/0001353150/PIA17207prometheus1020.preview.jpg)
7.01.2016
In Greek myth Prometheus was a Titan, known for bringing fire from Mount Olympus. But in modern times the name is given to is a small moon of Saturn, orbiting just inside Saturn's F ring.
![Тени "пропеллеров" на кольцах Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/10/26/0001370850/RingPeaks_Cassini_960.preview.jpg)
25.10.2016
What created these unusually long shadows on Saturn's rings? The dark shadows -- visible near the middle of the image -- extend opposite the Sun and, given their length, stem from objects having heights up to a few kilometers.
![Виды Сатурна с аппарата Кассини](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/06/14/0001252182/saturn-video.preview.png)
13.06.2011
What has the Cassini orbiter seen since arriving at Saturn? The above music video shows some of the highlights. In the first time-lapse sequence (00:07), a vertical line appears that is really Saturn's thin rings seen nearly edge-on. Soon some of Saturn's moon shoot past.
!["Кассини" пересекает плоскость колец Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/02/23/0001301932/saturnplane_cassini_960.preview.jpg)
23.02.2014
If this is Saturn, where are the rings? When Saturn's "appendages" disappeared in 1612, Galileo did not understand why. Later that century, it became understood that Saturn's unusual protrusions were rings and that when the Earth crosses the ring plane, the edge-on rings will appear to disappear.
![Равноденствие на Сатурне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/09/22/0001321967/saturnequinox_cassini_960.preview.jpg)
21.09.2014
How would Saturn look if its ring plane pointed right at the Sun? Before August 2009, nobody knew. Every 15 years, as seen from Earth, Saturn's rings point toward the Earth and appear to disappear.
![Спутники Сатурна за пределами его колец](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/07/12/0001245982/rheajanus_cassini.preview.jpg)
12.07.2010
What's happened to that moon of Saturn? Nothing -- Saturn's moon Rhea is just partly hidden behind Saturn's rings. In April, the robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn took this narrow-angle view looking across the Solar System's most famous rings.
![В тени Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/09/05/0001253556/newrings_cassini.preview.jpg)
4.09.2011
In the shadow of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear. The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn drifted in giant planet's shadow for about 12 hours in 2006 and looked back toward the eclipsed Sun. Cassini saw a view unlike any other.
![Сатурн: тени солнечных часов](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/10/13/0001254166/saturn9_cassini_900.preview.jpg)
12.10.2011
Saturn's rings form one of the larger sundials known. This sundial, however, determines only the season of Saturn, not the time of day. In 2009, during Saturn's last equinox, Saturn's thin rings threw almost no shadows onto Saturn, since the ring plane pointed directly toward the Sun.
![Кольца Сатурна: внутри, сквозь и вне.](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/10/27/0001254369/fourmoons_cassini_900.preview.jpg)
26.10.2011
A fourth moon is visible on the above image if you look hard enough. First -- and furthest in the background -- is Titan, the largest moon of Saturn and one of the larger moons in the Solar System. The dark feature across the top of this perpetually cloudy world is the north polar hood.
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